NPR's Scott Detrow speaks with Matthew Medler of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology about the best bird sounds of 2025 from their vast collection of recordings, and why their selections made the list.

With All Hallows Eve rapidly approaching, I thought it was high time to explore the spookier side of birds. Specifically, ...

Birds that end up far from home, like the New York common cuckoo, are known as “vagrants.” They’re fairly common during ...

If you were old enough to buy CDs in the ’90s, you may remember listening stations at superstores that featured music by some of nature’s noisiest creatures: birds. These CDs blended classical music ...

A Sarasota-based electronics company named after a breed of sea turtle has developed an electronic listening device that – when combined with an artificial intelligence database developed by Cornell ...

The findings of a new study about communication between birds also offer key insights into the origins of language.

Sandhill cranes are making their annual noisy reappearance in Indiana a little early this year. IndyStar’s recent edition of Scrub Hub answered some questions about why the cranes are here and where ...

There's something enjoyable about sitting back and watching birds chasing bugs in your yard, flying back and forth to feed hungry (and loud) nestlings, stopping by to check out the latest offerings in ...

You might imagine that a scientific community that can splice genes, clone life and put machines on the Martian surface would know all about the life of our everyday bird species. You would be wrong.